Doesn’t this sound a lot like an iPad in 1972? Edwin Land engaged Charles and Ray Eames to make the video. Was Land an influence on Steve Jobs? And @thoshughes? This video?
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The SX-70 iPad
Posted in ARCHITECTURE & ART, FILM, GEEKDOM, HEH, PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, SHINY, VIDEO DU JOUR on September 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Survivors
Posted in FILM, HEH, PEEPS, PHOTOGRAPHY, VIDEO DU JOUR on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Errol Morris Stands Up To Cancer:
Movies This Week
Posted in FILM, HEH, MUSIC, POLITICS on October 5, 2007 | Comments Off
Am back in NYC and managed to hit the movies twice in the past week – a total luxury – and recommend both films highly. First, headed up to the Walter Reade for MacunaÃma. Brazilian Cinema Novo director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade completed this politically charged flick in 1968. The negative was recently restored (Andrade’s [...]
Errol Morris Does Abu Ghraib
Posted in FILM, HEH, POLITICS on November 8, 2006 | Comments Off
IMHO, Errol Morris’ Fog of War was profoundly insightful. I read today Morris is doing an Abu Ghraib doc. Am curious re what he has in mind for this production. Go rent Fog of War if you haven’t seen it, I’m pretty sure that despite the fact you read my extremely boring blog you will [...]
Inconvenient Truths
Posted in ECONOMICS & FINANCE, ENERGY, FILM, GEEKDOM, POLITICS on June 3, 2006 | Comments Off
Haven’t been posting much lately due to a busy calendar and I apologise for that. I did have time a few nights ago to hike over to the Sunshine to finally see Davis Guggenheim‘s An Inconvenient Truth, which I was going to review here the following morning. Needless to say, the free time to scribble [...]
As you know, the Tribeca Film Festival is in full swing. I’ve had a chance to catch a few screenings, the one I hit this afternoon is a must see: Who Killed The Electric Car Chris Paine was there for a Q&A afterwards. The film is not only a great story it’s a story well [...]
Yield Management
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, REPORTAGE on February 15, 2006 | Comments Off
We’ve been talking about yield management for movie theatres for years. Everyone has said it would never happen. Holy sh*t, the NYT has a piece today with a prediction from AMC: There is no easy fix for industry. But it’s clear that it can’t afford to leave easy money sitting on the table any longer, [...]
Stereoscopic Video
Posted in FILM, GEEKDOM, SHINY on January 30, 2006 | Comments Off
Heh. What do you get when you glue together two Panasonic AG-DVX100A cams, bypass the miniDV tape resolution and colour ceilings by feeding the data directly from their a/d converters via USB, mod a pair of Apple Mac Minis to boot from flash memory and smack in a pair of fast hard drives, sync both [...]
A Scanner Darkly
Posted in FILM, GEEKDOM, PEEPS on January 28, 2006 | Comments Off
There’s a terrific interview with Richard Linklater in Filmmaker Magazine about the making of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly along with a few of the cool rotoscoped images. Linklater: Dick wrote this paranoid future, and my premise with the movie was that we are living in science fiction now. This is the paranoid future. [...]
Sundance Shorts Are Online
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, HEH on January 23, 2006 | Comments Off
This is cool, Sundance is streaming shorts on the Interweb. From Techweb: The 2006 Sundance Web site underwent a complete overhaul to make navigation easier and to bring the Sundance Film Festival online. Improvements include faster downloads, sharper graphics, an expanded help section, and weather and news updates on the home page. “We’re super excited [...]
Beastie Collaborative Film
Posted in DISTRIBUTION, FILM, MUSIC, PEEPS on January 21, 2006 | Comments Off
The Beastie Boys handed out video cameras to 50 fans in the audience for their October 2004 concert at Madison Square Garden. The film, edited up from the 50 loaned cams and a few higher quality cams on stage is being presented tonight at Sundance (Library Center Theatre), the expected release date is March 2006, [...]
Fair Use
Posted in FILM, PARTICIPATORY MEDIA on December 7, 2005 | Comments Off
Documentary filmmakers should be pleased about this bit of progress, The Center For Social Media have put together a report articulating suggestions for guidelines regarding “fair use” of copyrighted assets. Their statement of best practices in fair use (.pdf) looks like it’s intended to make clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of [...]
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